From 2011 until mid-2015, these are the book we read and discussed: Barron Park Reading Group Books read June 2015 and earlier 2015 American Nations Colin Woodard Jun Terry non-fiction Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie May Janet fiction Me Before You JoJo Moyes Apr Yvonne fiction Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Betty Smith Mar Barbara fiction […]
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Fiction suggested by Barbara 1980 a wealthy businessman is brutally kidnapped and returned one week later. Forty years later all the family is still suffering the repercussions. Amazon: In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned […]
A Year of the Hunter by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine Non-Fiction suggested by Shirley One year in Nobelist Milosz’ life, remembering his youth and the writers’ groups of Warsaw and Paris, his life in Berkeley in the sixties. Has he lived his life decently? Note: This book is hard to find on […]
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Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout Fiction suggested by Barbara Late 1950s, small town ME, minister struggles to regain his calling.
About Grace by Anthony Doerr Fiction suggested by Janet From Amazon: The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy […]
The Admissions by Meg Mitchell Moore Fiction suggested by Barbara From Amazon: The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful house in one of the most affluent areas of northern California, and three charming kids with perfectly straight teeth. And then comes their eldest daughter’s senior year of high school . . . […]
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn Fiction suggested by Terry In an enthralling new historical novel, two women — a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 — are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage […]
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner Fiction suggested by JoAnn From Amazon – Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, retirees Joe and Ruth have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents: […]
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Fiction suggested by Shirley Cut off from the only life he ever knew, John Cole, 16, and a friend set off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic/comic journey where dreams are paid for in blood. From Amazon – The tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds […]